This is fine as long as sp_xp_cmdshell_proxy_account has not been executed.

Do the following to check if a credential name of ##xp_cmdshell_proxy_account## exists. If not then a global proxy has not been setup and there would be no access unless part of the sysadmin fixed server role.

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Entering a date in Microsoft Access can be tricky. A typo can cause month and day to be shuffled, entering the day only causes an error, as does entering, say, day 31 in June. This article shows how an inputmask supported by code can help the user a…

This video shows, step by step, how to configure Oracle Heterogeneous Services via the Generic Gateway Agent in order to make a connection from an Oracle session and access a remote SQL Server database table.

Viewers will learn how to use the UPDATE and DELETE statements to change or remove existing data from their tables.
Make a table:
Update a specific column given a specific row using the UPDATE statement:
Remove a set of values using the DELETE s…